Fibromyalgi (FM) är ett tillstånd av kronisk smärta, förutom smärtan karaktäriseras sjukdomen även av sömnstörningar, extrem trötthet och kognitiva störningar. Att ständigt leva med smärta innebär en stor stressfaktor och både fysiska, psykiska och stressrelaterade symtom är vanliga. Den ständigt närvarande upplevelsen av fatigue liknar den som beskrivs vid kroniskt trötthetssyndrom. Fatigue definieras som ett tillstånd av onaturlig och onormal eller extrem trötthet i hela kroppen, som inte är relaterat till aktivitet eller ansträngning. Syftet med studien var att beskriva vilka icke-farmakologiska interventioner som förekommer för att lindra fatigue hos patienter med FM.

Since 1 January 2010 it is a requirement to use the European standards, Eurocodes, in Sweden when constructing bridges. One chapter that has caused an extra amount of problems for the engineers is the one about fatigue analysis, which resulted in us doing this thesis.To do this we had to read all of the Eurocodes that direct, or indirect deals with fatigue and calculating of such. We have read the background documents for the Eurocodes and master?s thesis in the subject. We also studied the calculations of bridges constructed by different construction firms.We have chosen to limit the thesis to discuss only road bridges made of concrete due to the lack of method for verification of concrete in the national appendix.

The aim of the study was to explore the methods used in horticultural therapy gardens in rehabilitating people suffering from fatigue syndrome. Nine horticultural therapy gardens were contacted of wich three chose to participate. Using case study as method e-mail interviews was carried out with the participants about their establishment and what kind of theories they based their methods upon. The material collected from the interviews was complemented with additional data from the establishments web pages and information pamphlets. Collected data was processed trough content analysis and then formed as background for the development of a program theory for horticultural therapy.

Dampness in the indoor environment have been a major issue of discussion the last decades since more and more people complain about their indoor environment. In the present situation there are difficulties to find what causes people?s discomfort in a damp environment even though there is a strong connection between dampness and human health.The aim of the thesis was to contribute to the work done today to achieve a better indoor environment in damp buildings. The purpose of the work was to evaluate whether the measures issued for dampness in the indoor environment contributes to the improvement of health and environment for those who are living or working in that space. Through a literature review, interview and survey the following three questions were answered to achieve the aim and purpose:How are people affected by the indoor environment in damp buildings?Which are the measures issued to prevent dampness in the indoor environment?Do these interventions contribute to a better indoor environment?How people are affected by the indoor environment in damp buildings and how these problems are prevented were the foundation for the continued work with the survey.

The purpose of the study is to investigate how social workers within different areas of work in Malmö, who comes in contact with persons who have been subject to honour-related violence, sees the problem, if they have any special view on the cause of the violence and investigate the efforts which are offered to individuals who have been or are subject to honour-related violence. I wanted to investigate if there exists a universal view among social workers in Malmö of the definition of and way of working with persons affected by honour-related violence. Various reports show that there exists great disagreement among debaters as well as social workers regarding the definition of honour-related violence. There are also different sentiments about the cause of honour-related violence within research. I conducted four interviews on five individuals employed within different areas of work in Malmö which comes in contact with girls and women who have been subject to honour-related violence. My study shows that there exists great dissent among social workers regarding the term honour-related violence, the cause of the problem and the concerned areas of work works with different ways with persons which they come in contact with..

Hambert, M. Degree project in social work. Malmö University: Faculty of health and society, Department of social work, 2014. Equine assisted therapy is for many a yet unknown form of rehabilitation. In the current situation there is a lack of documented research on horses' involvement in rehabilitation and social work. Studies show that animals, and especially horses, can have a positive impact on human well-being, both physically and mentally.

After the honor killings of Fadime and Pela, an extensively discussion started in the media, debating honor-related violence and oppression. This debate also made us, the authours of this paper, to pay attention to the problem. As a professional in social work, there are several good points to be made by having an in-depth knowledge in the field, both to discover individuals exposed to honor-related violence and to be able to protect them. The study was conducted by four qualitative interviews with professionals in social work with a professional experience of honor-related problems. Through the interviews, the social worker's view of honor problems emerged.

Multipel skleros, MS, är en neurologisk autoimmun sjukdom som drabbar centrala nervsystemet. Trötthet/fatigue upplevs av många som ett av de svåraste symptomen som inverkar starkt på det vardagliga livet. MS-relaterad fatigue/trötthet ger en känsla av utmattning och brist på energi som kan vara överväldigande. Tröttheten är orimlig i förhållande till de aktiviteter som utförs. Syftet med uppsatsen var att beskriva hur det är att leva med MS-relaterad fatigue/trötthet.

The work related illness has increased and instead of focusing on what?s causing it more and more efforts are put on trying to find the health factors within and outside the work environment. During the past years the term ?long-term health? has arisen; instead of focusing on the number of employees on the sick-list, the focus should be put on the number of employees that has a record of long-term health within an organization, i.e. health-presence.

Vid kronisk sjukdom förändras livet ofta på ett dramatiskt sätt. Fati-gue är ett av de vanligaste symtomen som personer med kroniska sjukdomar upplever. Fatigue kan beskrivas som ett subjektivt obe-hagligt symtom som kan innefatta total kroppslig upplevelse med allt från trötthet till utmattning, detta skapar ett opålitligt tillstånd som påverkar individens förmåga till normal kapacitet. Syftet med denna litteraturstudie var att beskriva människors upplevelser av att leva med fatigue vid kronisk sjukdom. Nio kvalitativa artiklar analysera-des med kvalitativ manifest innehållsanalys och resulterade i fyra ka-tegorier: tröttheten påverkar hela kroppen, det sociala livet begrän-sas, beroendet ökar men hoppet finns kvar och fatigue uppstår av oli-ka anledningar och fluktuerar så egenvården måste skräddarsys.

Vid kronisk sjukdom förändras livet ofta på ett dramatiskt sätt. Fati-gue är ett av de vanligaste symtomen som personer med kroniska sjukdomar upplever. Fatigue kan beskrivas som ett subjektivt obe-hagligt symtom som kan innefatta total kroppslig upplevelse med allt från trötthet till utmattning, detta skapar ett opålitligt tillstånd som påverkar individens förmåga till normal kapacitet. Syftet med denna litteraturstudie var att beskriva människors upplevelser av att leva med fatigue vid kronisk sjukdom. Nio kvalitativa artiklar analysera-des med kvalitativ manifest innehållsanalys och resulterade i fyra ka-tegorier: tröttheten påverkar hela kroppen, det sociala livet begrän-sas, beroendet ökar men hoppet finns kvar och fatigue uppstår av oli-ka anledningar och fluktuerar så egenvården måste skräddarsys.

Bakgrund: En genomgång av aktuellt kunskapsläge visar att sjuksköterskor har en risk att utveckla compassion fatiguepå grund av sitt empatiska engagemang gentemot patienterna. Compassion fatigueär då en person som konsekvens av sitt empatiska engagemang gentemot en patient blir emotionellt utmattad. Syfte:Syftet med denna studie är att belysa riskfaktorer för sjuksköterskor att drabbas av compassion fatiguesamt för att undvika detta tillstånd. Metod:En litteraturstudie gjordes med både kvalitativ och kvantitativ forskning. Resultatet analyserades och sammanfattades.

The purpose with this work is to describe the language that is built around the chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) in Sweden. Our questions are: What does the professional field look like; who writes, about what and for which kind of readers? How do they describe the expressions and the upcoming of CFS? For which reasons can CFS be considered as a medical diagnosis/illness? How can CFS be understood from a social perspective? Our theoretical starting point is a social constructive theory and also Karin Johannisson's theory about medicalization and Foucault?s theory about power. We have from a literature-exposition of Swedish articles from 1989 to 2006, done a social constructive discourse analysis with help from Laclau & Mouffe's discourse theory, and Fairclough's model of social practices. In our textual analysis we found three dominating discourses: A medical discourse, a social/cultural discourse and a general/popular discourse.

Bakgrund: reumatoid artrit eller kronisk ledgångsreumatism, är en sjukdom som styrs av immunologiska reaktioner som orsakar leddestruktion med symtom som ledstelhet, trötthet, allmän sjukdomskänsla samt smärta. Enligt tidigare forskning har speciellt fatigue och smärta rapporterats vara de största konsekvenserna av sjukdomen. Syfte: syftet med litteraturstudien var att belysa hur vuxna personer med reumatoid artrit påverkas av smärta och fatigue. Metod: metoden för litteraturstudien inspirerades utifrån sju steg beskrivna av Willman m fl (2011) för att finna och bedöma relevant vetenskaplig litteratur. Sökningar gjordes i PubMed och Cinahl och efter granskning valdes tio vetenskapliga artiklar ut för vidare analys.

The purpose of this study was to investigate how social workers who worked with financial assistance perceived their work situation and the impact work-related stress had on their health and quality of work. Further, the study intended to find out if they felt that they received support from their employer that could prevent stress-related sick leave. The following two research questions were to be answered: In what way does work-related stress affect social workers? health and job quality according to their own experience? What kind of support and help experienced social workers were available within their organization? To receive answers to the questions semi-structured interviews with five social workers were conducted, analyzed and interpreted. The results showed that when social workers have a heavy case burden, high stress and a risk of deteriorated job quality occurred.